84 SPRINGTIME SURGERY 



The colt was allowed to come out of his anesthe- 

 sia and he got up apparently none the worse for 

 his experience. This was about 5 o'clock. At 

 10:15 p. m. the animal was heard to be making a 

 noise in the box as if in violent pain, and upon 

 examination the bowels were found to have de- 

 scended. The weight had ruptured one of the 

 sutures and a loop of bowel had come down nearly 

 as far as the hocks. 



Assistance was summoned, and after consider- 

 able difficulty the colt was cast and the bowel re- 

 turned. As much washing and disinfecting was 

 done as was possible under the circumstances, and 

 a plug of cotton wool was inserted. This was in- 

 serted underneath a row of sutures, and then fol- 

 lowed by a second row of sutures, in such a way 

 that the pad could be changed without danger of 

 allowing the bowel to escape, the first layer of 

 sutures not being touched or interfered with in 

 any way. 



On the following morning the colt's tempera- 

 ture was 103° F., and during the subsequent days 

 it varied between 102° and 103° F. The pad of 

 cotton wool was changed on numerous occasions. 



